Truly sickening...

[gabyyyyy]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...0&ncid=716

This is why our soldiers are over there. Some of those people in Iraq are INSANE!

[ThaSaltCracka]

those are some sick [censored]. Seeing [censored] like this makes me forget about any of the so called "atrocities" committed by our troops.

[krazyace5]

Yes, very disgusting, I think the US should pull out of there and just let those animals destroy each other. What a bunch of crazy, uneducated, freaks. But hey "were the bad guys"

[Zeno]

This incident is, unfortunately, nothing really new, unique, or surprising. And it certainly is nothing unique to 'them' or 'the Arab world'.

A little perusal through any time frame of history of just about any people will reveal the same types of atrocities and cruelty.

Do not imply from the above statements that I approve of what occurred, or that I don’t think that what occurred isn't revolting and sickening. It is just not as unique as most in the media or politics would want to imply or play it up to be.

-Zeno

[sam h]

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A little perusal through any time frame of history of just about any people will reveal the same types of atrocities and cruelty.

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Much, much worse, I would say. Not only has the number of deaths needed to constitute a real atrocity in the public imagination gone down, the ingenuity of the sadists seems to be waning as well. Dragging people through the streets and stringing them up? Beating corpses with sticks? Pretty banal stuff.

[nicky g]

Yeah, noone's ever been lynched in the US.

[adios]

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Yeah, noone's ever been lynched in the US.

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You're not usually given to introducing non sequiters into the discussion. If you're complaining about his statement as to why US troops are there, your response doesn't address that issue. If you're complaining about calling some Iraqis insane, one does not display an iota of hypocrisy for condemning the Iraqis the original poster was referring to without condemning other atrocities.

[nicky g]

I was responding to thread so far; in particular this:
"Yes, very disgusting, I think the US should pull out of there and just let those animals destroy each other. What a bunch of crazy, uneducated, freaks."
But while you're rioght that my response is not appropriate to those two things individually, together they suggest that Iraq is especially in need of US occupation because it is especially full of insane sick people, as illustrated by a lynching. If all he meant was that there are insane people everywhere, he'd be calling for US occupation of everywhere. Which he'd get, no doubt.

[andyfox]

Sane, educated freaks prefer to kill their victims from the air?

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Irrelevant. If evils perpetrated in the past disqualify a nation from taking a moral stand in the present, then the concept of right and wrong go out the window.